Working with stills in a video environment

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Learn how to work with still images in the context of project and sequence properties. Specifically, you learn about how working with image resolution in a sequence that contains video resolution. You discover how to scale up and set to frame size. You also learn how to create an opaque black background to surround an image with a transparent alpha channel.

- [Instructor] Still images are a wonderful addition…to many video projects,…whether they be photographs, graphics, or titles.…In this movie, we're going to take a look…at how to bring still images into your project…and how to work with them in the context…of a video environment.…But before actually bringing them in,…I just want to discuss a couple…of still image related preferences.…I'm going to come up to Premiere Pro,…Preferences, and Timeline.…Again, on a PC this is under the Edit menu.…And I want to look at Still Image Default Duration.…

By default, it's set at 150 Frames,…which in a 30 frame-per-second project is five seconds,…and in a 24 frame-per-second project…is about six and one quarter seconds.…So you can certainly change this if you want,…make it shorter or longer to your liking,…but I wouldn't actually worry about it too much…because when you're working with stills,…you can always make them longer or shorter in the timeline…by just trimming them in or out.…So I'm okay with that and I'm going to say OK.…

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5/26/2017

Get started with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017. This beginning-level course takes you through the basic ins and outs of Premiere Pro CC 2017. Using a project-based approach, senior staff author Ashley Kennedy teaches editing by blending technical and aesthetic instruction. She begins by taking you on a tour of the interface, and then goes through the entire post-production process—including ingest, organization, editing, refining, audio editing, basic effects, color correction, titling, output, and more.

This is the first part of a two-part series. The second installment explores more intermediate techniques.